I have one object that I've imported from Coral Draw that has a gradient. I'm wanting to recreate this gradient affect but when I use the eyedropper tool to copy the gradient it doesn't look the same as the previous version. When I look at all of the settings and colours in the Gradient panel they are identical to that of what I'm copying. Any ideas?

OK. This looks like you have moved and/or rotated the complete gradient. You could try and make a graphic style of the original first (drag the object into the graphic style palette) and then apply that graphic style to the copy.